Evening dress

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This is high style dress of the period when sleeves were getting larger with each season. The unique embroidery is distinctive and representative of the overt extravagance applied in this period.

The Costume Institute

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Costume Institute's collection of more than thirty-three thousand objects represents seven centuries of fashionable dress and accessories for men, women, and children, from the fifteenth century to the present.

Metropolitan Museum of Art